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Federal government once again boycotts critical national housing summit

Provincial and territorial housing ministers are meeting August 20 in St John's, NL, but the federal housing minister has rejected an invitation to join the Continue Reading…

The European Portal for Action on Health Equity

The European Portal for Action on Health Equity is a tool for promoting health equity within the European Union (EU). This website contains a large amount of Continue Reading…

Pandemic Flu Planning through an Equity Lens

The possibility of an H1N1 pandemic is quite properly receiving a great deal of policy and health system attention.  This is not just a question of system Continue Reading…

Back to the Future? Spectre of Clintoncare hangs over Obama’s Health Care Reform

As a Canadian who has studied U.S. health policy but now works as a policy analyst at the Wellesley Institute in Toronto, I find that Canadians are very Continue Reading…

Pretty words, ugly implications: deconstructing the language of advocates of health care privatization

In my July 3rd blog posting, I was critical of B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon's views on financial ability as a determinant of access to health care. Now, in Continue Reading…

President Obama’s News Conference on Health Care Reform

Yesterday, in an attempt to win over both the American public and political opponents (both Democratic and Republican) of ambitious health care reform, Continue Reading…

Pandemic Flu action plans

The WI has been working to raise the awareness that organizations need to develop concrete action plans for the upcoming pandemic flu possibility. These focus Continue Reading…

US Health Care Reform: An Update before the Speech

Canadians continue to watch with interest and concern as policy-makers in the United States debate how to best reform the US health care system. Canadians and Continue Reading…

An Ambitious Plan to Reform US Health Care

Recently, Democrats in the US House of Representatives unveiled a 1,018 page health reform package, entitled "America's Affordable Health Choices Act," which Continue Reading…

Privatizing health care services: my un-philosophical objection

According to the Vancouver Sun, new B.C. health minister Kevin Falcon doesn't "have any philosophical objection" to patients being allowed to pay for faster Continue Reading…